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> In the wake of fake news

Well, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it might be enemy action, but a constant stream of mischief and abuse stories coming for the past few years... that's just how Uber rolls. The company should have been put down long ago, but now it's a good time too.

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> but a constant stream of mischief and abuse stories coming for the past few years... that's just how Uber rolls

So if some piece of information is repeated enough times it is definitely true? I don't want to defend Uber here, I just think that your reasoning in this sentence is flawed.

I didn't mean repeating the same piece of information, I meant that each story was about some new mischief. Tax issues, employee vs contractor, operating illegally, price changes, uninsured drivers, spying on journalists, threatening journalists, sabotaging competition... that's just few old stories off the top of my head.

>In the U.S. alone, the company is involved in 173 lawsuits

http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-dont-b...

They've even got a wikipedia page dedicated just to their legal problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_protests_and_legal_action...

At a certain point I think we should probably accept that it's not a great company.

Not trying to defend Uber here, but no individual legal allegation is proof of guilt. Mathematically, if every allegation holds zero proof of guilt, then in aggregate, even 173 allegations sum to zero proof of guilt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14123332

They are an org of unethical people doing unethical and illegal things. The sooner Uber implodes, the better for the world as a whole.

But again, that's just a restatement of accusations, not evidence.

This is an intentionally obtuse position. The quoted commenter is referring to distinct events, not repetition of a single event.

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